“What if I find someone new but still fall asleep to the thought of you?”
–9:54 PM
“People who like to be in control of things can have a hard time with intimacy. Intimacy is anarchic and mutual and definitionally incompatible with control. You seek to control things because you are afraid.”
“I was just waiting for you to want me as much as I wanted you.”
— Kimberly Derting, The Body Finder
“You’re not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the centre of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.”
— Abby McDonald, Getting Over Garrett Delaney
“Maybe I haven’t really forgotten you, maybe you’re the last person I think of before sleep, maybe you’re the first that I think of when I wake up, maybe you come to my mind every now and then, maybe I feel like calling you just to know how you are, maybe I have a wish to show up to your door just to know if you’d open it for me, maybe I still want to give us a chance. Maybe. But no, I chose not to have you any longer in my life and maybe that might be enough to forget you. Maybe.”
“If you’re strong enough to let go of what endlessly tires you the universe will surprise you with something that endlessly inspires you.”